id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 11560 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) The Barbarism of Berlin .txt text/plain 11780 594 71 July 28: Germany annexes Belgium, England declares war. July 29: Germany promises not to annex France, England withdraws from the July 30: Germany annexes France, England declares war. the opportunity to defend them; or, in other words, of course England, like In mere fact, the Germanic shall understand why England and France prefer Russia; and consider Prussia I do most heartily) that the German Emperor is a barbarian, I am not merely If the German calls the Russian barbarous, he presumably means imperfectly Now we, the French and English, do not mean this when we call the Prussians open War. Even savages promise things; and respect those who keep their example, can legitimately be called a barbaric thing; but the word is the word which is translated from the German as "honour," must really mean But the difference between the Germans and the English goes ./cache/11560.txt ./txt/11560.txt